[…]use for a couple of years but I'd also applied to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Director's scheme that they ran, that ABC Television ran. It was for theatre directors actually but I was[…]
[…]did you climb up the art directing ladder then? PM: Well, the – with Fred Pusey, before television started, they had a company called Associated Rediffusion.DB: Yes. 20 minutes. PM: Future productions, I think they were and they were stockpiling. Little vignettes. Fifteen- or ten-minu[…]
[…]on television.Unknown Speaker  12:53  Yes,Unknown Speaker  12:55  I did a television with him, funnily enough at the beginning of rediffusion because my boss thought that he was marvellous Georgia and gave him a pilot and it was a john shabu show was Pins and Needles and Pins and[…]
[…]ys, it wasn't very much. And I went see my agent and he said oh it's ridiculous. So commercial television was just starting, so he ran up a friend in Rediffusion and he said, oh he's just sort of person you, you ought to have as script editor light entertainment, because he's done a lot of comedy an[…]
[…]n’t seem to get it right somehow, it took a long time for people…With The Bounty Theatre and…Yes.And ‘Coronation Street’?Yes, Street, yes.And things, Rediffusion…Yes. Which, which had been such a resounding success. And so they’d set up this, mm, glamorous serial about life in a glamorous… Well, all[…]
[…]sp;I can. Yeah, well, I was farmed out, you know, as a camera man for things like like this programme with Desmond Wilk, I forget what it was to seed Rediffusion I did two or three items for them. And, and in Kingsway in the studio, I shot some stuff there for for television in the early days. This […]
[…]ern Olympics’,[118] but I suppose I’ll come to that in a minute! So, then I did a record – I sang some songs on a record called Two Faces of Love for Rediffusion. I’d actually written a couple of songs, which I did on that, but mainly they were love songs that other people had written. And then that[…]
[…]u and Gerald Adorian and me. But I don't want you to say a bloody word other than "good afternoon"." And I called Gerald Adorian, and we went over to Rediffusion offices. Paul Croasdell said "Ok". We started off, and in thirty minutes we settled sixty territories.Alan Sapper : Incredible.Lew Grade :[…]
